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BobT
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virtual machine inaccessible

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After a re-installation of my system (Centos-7) and installation of VirtualBox-5.2, I was able to use a Windows guest again. But after a reboot of the host system I'm now getting this error message. The logs are empty. The "Location" is ../VirtualBox VMs/WinVirt/WinVirt.vbox', line 1 (0), column 1. That file is also empty. There's a non-empty WinVirt.vbox-prev but it's dated Nov 2016. Other guests seem to be working normally.
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Re: virtual machine inaccessible

Post by Perryg »

Delete the empty WinVirt.vbox and rename the WinVirt.vbox-prev to WinVir.vbox and it should work.
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Re: virtual machine inaccessible

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Or if there's a ".vbox-temp" file, that might work as well.
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BobT
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Re: virtual machine inaccessible

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> Delete the empty WinVirt.vbox and rename the WinVirt.vbox-prev to WinVir.vbox and it should work.

It did work. Thanks.
BobT
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Re: virtual machine inaccessible

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It worked in that the guest started, but when I shut it down, there was again an empty WinVirt.vbox. Why is this?
BobT
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Re: virtual machine inaccessible

Post by BobT »

> It worked in that the guest started, but when I shut it down, there was again an empty WinVirt.vbox. Why is this?

Because there wasn't any more room on the device :+(
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